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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many mills in Medfield, Massachusetts, were destroyed by Native Americans during King Philip's War in 1675?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

2. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?
(a) Appease the gods.
(b) Preserve the Indian way of life.
(c) Purify their blood.
(d) Eradicate the colonists.

3. What is defined as an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition?
(a) Civilization.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Culture.
(d) Savagery.

4. One house, known as what, was burnt in King Philip's War but was rebuilt shortly thereafter near downtown Medfield, Massachusetts?
(a) The Medfield Mansion.
(b) The Peak House.
(c) The Orchard House.
(d) The Boston House.

5. When was John Eliot born?
(a) 1595.
(b) 1604.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1641.

6. King Philip's War began in June of what year?
(a) 1639.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1648.
(d) 1675.

7. What is a Protestant theological system and an approach to the Christian life and was advanced by several theologians such as Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Huldrych Zwingli?
(a) Helitism.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Puritanism.
(d) Ordinism.

8. According to the author, many colonists found it hard to write about the war, such as what individual who felt totally devastated by his experience of the burning of Springfield?
(a) Richard Callicot.
(b) John Pynchon.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) William Hubbard.

9. What is the name of an Algonquian Native American tribe from Rhode Island?
(a) The Mohegan tribe.
(b) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(c) The Nipmuc tribe.
(d) The Narragansett tribe.

10. Where was John Sassamon born?
(a) Near current New York, NY.
(b) Near current Washington, D.C.
(c) Near current Canton, MA.
(d) Near current Boston, MA.

11. When was William Hubbard born?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1621.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1676.

12. How many accounts of King Philip's War represent several types of writing aimed at different audiences, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) 10.
(b) 21.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

13. The sachem Metacomet was also known by what name?
(a) King Seminole.
(b) King Alexander.
(c) King Uncas.
(d) King Philip.

14. John Sassamon was born circa what year?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1648.
(c) 1688.
(d) 1600.

15. What book did William Hubbard write at the order of the Colonial government, which paid him 50 pounds for it?
(a) An Account of the Great Swamp Battle.
(b) A History of England.
(c) A History of New England.
(d) A History of the Northwest.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Puritans came to America, the Algonquians were thought to be what?

2. Metacomet was a war chief or sachem of what Indian tribe?

3. The three men who were accused as the killers of Sassamon were Mattashunannamo, Tobias, and his son, who was named what?

4. When was Metacomet born?

5. The first English settlers arrived in what year, when Sassamon's parents may have welcomed them?

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